I highly recommend #AdventOfCode. I did it last year and just finished day 1 of this year. It gets much more challenging. So much fun! adventofcode.com/
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Ahhhh it’s my favorite time of the year. Tests start breaking, email notifications are off by an hour, and whole dev teams get inspired to start fixing their daylight saving time bugs and then realize hey it only happens a few times a year so whatever just leave it til next time
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The price of actually handling corner cases. How rubygems parses uid/gid in tar headers; how GNU tar does. When you go from handling 95% of cases to 99% of cases this difference in code complexity isn't that uncommon - an important lesson about software dev.
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Idea: a tech conference called Tradeoffs where each talk is has two speakers debating the finer points of tech decisions for which there are no clear answers (i.e. all of them)
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Oh dear, ECMAscript 2018 adds Shared Memory and Atomics.This will not end well.
It would have been vastly better to add support for sharing immutable data between worker threads and thus build the perfect(*) actor VM.
(*) including ubiquitous availability
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I'll be happy when it is the default choice for all new languages. xitter.gq/dsyme/status/931095426…
C# changes its mind after 20 years: "we think that the default meaning of unannotated reference types should be non-nullable". blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dot…
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QCON Video now posted: Production - Designing for Testability infoq.com/presentations/qual… lessons learned on using production to drive quality
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Design payoff line reminds us that Technical Debt is only worth doing up to a certain point
DesignStaminaHypothesis martinfowler.com/bliki/Desig… – at South Euclid, OH
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timezone programming memes are probably the dumbest thing I can get excited about these days lol kill me now
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'Powering a BI application w/#Elasticsearch at @Yodle’: What it was like at #Elasticon tour & on stage (+ the video) go.es.io/2go6dGw
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Hosting the @elastic meetup in NY and discussing the @Yodle centermark platform. @YodleTech loves sharing.
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@markdrago from @Yodle giving a talk in #NYC about their migration from Hadoop to #Elasticsearch @Elastic – at Manhattan, NY
Definitely just flew my new quad-copter/drone while waiting for my kernel to compile. #geekend
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that game night when dawn beat mark at rock paper scissors yodletechblog.com/?p=208 @YodleCareers @yodletech
Verifying myself: I am markdrago on Keybase.io. Dt_hMMnKTiy0X6byRVpZe5XkXKfo1H8xrbwK / keybase.io/markdrago/sigs/Dt…